The Weight of It All
Apr 4th, 2008 by Alex
The weight of everything is being lifted, one bit at a time. Lots of little things that I’ve been working on have finally come to fruition. My tax returns are completed and mailed. I contracted to have a new and improved splash image created for my placeholder site and am pleased with the results. Over the past couple months I’ve been putting in hours for RockStock, doing integration and custom code. I enjoy all of these, but I’m glad I’m done with them for now. I was getting to feel like I needed a vacation. Maybe I still do.
I was at work yesterday and had a Seinfeld thought about pens. I use ‘em all the time at work and at home, but I don’t think I’ve ever used a pen from beginning to end. I’ve used new pens and I’ve had pens that died on me in mid-stroke. I can see the ink cartridges and it occurred to me that I either misplace them or people walk off with them long before they go dead.
Speaking of pens, I think it is both absurd and ludicrous that we’re bailing people out who signed their mortgage contracts either without thought or a full understanding of what they were getting into. How many people read their contract before signing? I know I read every line — boilerplate or not — when I was closing. When did it become our country’s policy to bail people out of situations that they themselves signed up for? Bankruptcy hurts, but you’d sure as hell learn not to take on more than you could afford. How are people who made bad decisions going to learn from their mistakes if we keep helping them out?
